Example Sentences
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The promise is that our guilt can be expiated by making money.
From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2017
Generally, there is—much later—a period of national reckoning when the sins of the moment of crisis are both expiated and forgiven.
From Slate • Nov. 16, 2015
"My hunch," says Mesthene, "is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss."
From Time Magazine Archive
But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated.
From Time Magazine Archive
This freedom is really a grave burden of guilt; and can only be expiated by great actions.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
